• Architect mission-critical workflows: Design, build, and maintain stateful, end-to-end systems that ensure data integrity (idempotency, reconciliation, audit trails) and meet stringent compliance and reliability requirements. • Iterate rapidly: Ship incremental, production-ready features in days—prototype, gather real user feedback, and refine relentlessly. • Own your domain: Act as the technical product lead for core platform areas—setting standards for code quality, observability, testing, and operational excellence. • Delight and empower customers: Partner with Product and Support to translate user pain points into clean, intuitive solutions that scale from a single startup to enterprise. • Push the limits with AI: AI is part of the DNA at Central. We believe we can leverage it in a variety of ways to automate things that were previously impossible and create completely new user experiences.

• Identify, prioritize, design and deliver technical platform solutions • Engage with engineering stakeholders for pain points and opportunities • Drive key technology decisions for software maintenance • Own production availability with observability practices • Mentor junior engineers and promote collaboration

• Lead the software development strategy, supporting technical decisions and architectural direction. • Maintain standards and best practices, ensuring the continuous evolution of engineering. • Monitor the technical maturity of teams, promoting learning and a quality-focused culture. • Work on solving complex problems, facilitating the day-to-day activities of development teams. • Serve as a technical reference and partner in decision-making. • Track and evolve engineering metrics, promoting transparency and continuous improvement. • Collaborate on the design and development of solutions focused on security, performance, and observability. • Support product operations in production, ensuring scalability, resilience, and consistency. • Ensure service health through monitoring, alerts, incident management, and participation in war rooms. • Continuously evolve the technical roadmap, proposing improvements and new approaches.

• Develop robust, scalable backend solutions using Java and Spring Boot. • Actively participate in the full software development lifecycle, from design and conception through production delivery. • Implement and evolve CI/CD pipelines, ensuring automation and delivery quality. • Perform unit, integration, and end-to-end (E2E) testing, promoting quality and reliability practices. • Integrate and manage relational databases, and work with Kafka and its connectors. • Work with JPA/Hibernate and Kubernetes for application orchestration. • Ensure application observability using metrics, logs, and monitoring to continuously improve operations. • Apply and promote software resilience best practices, ensuring fault tolerance and high availability. • Collaborate with other teams, promoting alignment and clear communication. • Propose innovative solutions for technical and business challenges. • Document architecture and technical decisions to facilitate understanding and future development. • Contribute to the technical growth of other engineers on the team. • Seek and apply feedback for continuous improvement, maintaining a collaborative and proactive attitude.